Saturday, November 6, 2010

Movement mechanisms and a new project

It was decided that we needed to further explore movement mechanisms so for the weekend we split up into pairs and each prototyped mechanisms that seemed viable on paper. Unfortunately, paper doesn't always translate well into real life if you don't take the time to work out the mechanics of the system. Here is what resulted (plus one more gear mechanism which is not shown):




Since none of these worked very well, the majority of the group wanted to give up on this project and pursue something which is mechanistically easier and has a higher chance of working well. Now we are making a table which contains ferrofluid which is activated by electromagnets.

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